[Solved] Installing Pimatic 0.9 @OSMC?

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@Dodo88

sometimes the homeduino arduino dont connect after a restart.

the solution is:

1. unplug the homeduino arduino.
2. stop pimatic
3. plug in homeduino arduino.
4. start pimatic and enjoy

but your error is different than my solution.

Deutsch:
Ich habe pimatic auch unter omsc am laufen gehabt, das funktioniert 100%. Dein Fehler muss ein anderer sein, was nichts wirklich mit OSMC zutun hat.

@schmucke
i do the same installation on a sd-card with raspbian, theres all okay.
whenever i configure transmite and recieve pin and restart the plugin, pimatic gets the error.
should i buy an ardiuno nano?! could it run?

i use an arduino nano in my setup - and it works very well. i just edit my post above.

what is your setup? how dit you send and recive signals?

I connect the Transmitter directly on wiringpi 0 and the reciever on wiringPi 1 on my raspi (gpio).
In homeduino plugin, i choose “driver-gppio”, transmitter pin 0 and reciever pin 1.
The same config runs on raspbian.
Is it possible, that anywhere a filepath is wrong? (raspbian: /home/pi and osmc: /home/osmc) ?

@Dodo88 said in Installing Pimatic 0.9 @OSMC?:

I connect the Transmitter directly on wiringpi 0 and the reciever on wiringPi 1 on my raspi (gpio).
In homeduino plugin, i choose “driver-gppio”, transmitter pin 0 and reciever pin 1.
The same config runs on raspbian.
Is it possible, that anywhere a filepath is wrong? (raspbian: /home/pi and osmc: /home/osmc) ?

Should be " driver-gpio"… Typo?
Never had succes running osmc and pimatic 0.8 although some said they had succes and some said it wasnt possible so i gave up.

@Gleno0h In the webgui - > plugin-section i’ve select homeduino, then i could choose the driver between serialport and gpio, so i choosed gpio.

@Dodo88 could you try following two commands? It should output “ready”

cd /home/osmc/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-homeduino/node_modules/homeduino/bin/

Then execute vhduino

sudo ./vhduino

if all fails you could try the new ESPimaticRF solution via ESP8266
https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/2438/announcement-espimaticrf-coming-soon

but you are now on node 4.6.2 aren’t you?

@leader21 my node is on version 4.4.5.how can i update to 4.6.2?

@Gleno0h i will try it when i’m home

ok do it like that

delete node

1. sudo apt-get purge nodejs
   after that you can check if node is still on your system and do the following steps:
2. Check where NodeJS is installed: whereis node.
   This should output the path of node (for example /usr/local/bin/node).
3. Remove all binaries and the node_modules folder:
   sudo rm -r /usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/bin/npm /usr/local/lib/node_modules
4. Check that NodeJS is gone: node --version. It should output command not found.

reinstall with
wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.6.2/node-v4.6.2-linux-armv7l.tar.gz -P /tmp
cd /usr/local
sudo tar xzvf /tmp/node-v4.6.2-linux-armv7l.tar.gz --strip=1

@leader21
I get this

osmc@DodOsmc:~$ cd /usr/local
osmc@DodOsmc:/usr/local$ sudo tar xzvf /tmp/node-v4.6.2-linux-armv6l.tar.gz --strip=1
tar (child): /tmp/node-v4.6.2-linux-armv6l.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
osmc@DodOsmc:/usr/local$

@Dodo88 did you do

wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.6.2/node-v4.6.2-linux-armv7l.tar.gz -P /tmp

?

First

wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.6.2/node-v4.6.2-linux-armv7l.tar.gz -P /tmp

Then
cd /usr/local

And then
sudo tar xzvf /tmp/node-v4.6.2-linux-armv7l.tar.gz --strip=1

Looks like you just copied the whole code section.

Yes i did every code separatly, but its the same.
I repeat it 2 times in the last 10 minutes, result is the same

And what does the wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.6.2/node-v4.6.2-linux-armv7l.tar.gz -P /tmp mention?
Does it give an error? Is wget on your system? (It is not defaultly installed on jessie light and minibian)
If not available first do a sudo apt-get install wget

It don’t gave an Error with ‘wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.6.2/node-v4.6.2-linux-armv7l.tar.gz -P /tmp’

The error comes only after
’sudo tar xzvf /tmp/node-v4.6.2-linux-armv7l.tar.gz --strip=1’

And wget is up to date

I didn’t look carefully enough:

You download node-v4.6.2-linux-armv7l.tar.gz
and you try to untar node-v4.6.2-linux-armv6l.tar.gz

That is not going to work. In the untar you need armv71 as well.

Holy shot it works ^^

Okay, Should i Start pimatic now and test homeduino like normal?

oha!!! sorry there’s a typo!!! so sorry!!
harry has pointed to…

i corrected all answers , now you have the correct installation.

try again

delete node

1. sudo apt-get purge nodejs
   after that you can check if node is still on your system and do the following steps:
2. Check where NodeJS is installed: whereis node.
   This should output the path of node (for example /usr/local/bin/node).
3. Remove all binaries and the node_modules folder:
   sudo rm -r /usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/bin/npm /usr/local/lib/node_modules
4. Check that NodeJS is gone: node --version. It should output command not found.

reinstall with
wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.6.2/node-v4.6.2-linux-armv7l.tar.gz -P /tmp
cd /usr/local
sudo tar xzvf /tmp/node-v4.6.2-linux-armv7l.tar.gz --strip=1

Seems the Installation work correctly, thx! Hey guys you are very very super! You did so much for me, it wasn’t very easy with me ^^

Should i start now with sudo Service pimatic start, install the homeduino plugin again and test? Or should i do something before?

well, you’re ready to go
do whatever you want to with pimatic.
i would recommend to start the first time with sudo pimatic.js`to watch the debug messages on screen.
the installation of the sqlite database takes some time, so the first start could take some minutes.
if you are able to connect to the gui all should be ok then.

if you have other issues or questions, you know where to ask